Thanks Vince - There's still one or two niggles - when you've paid so much for CF and you then need to re-spend the same amount of money again (OK, maybe not quite as much as MM charge) on what is essentially the same tool (generalising a bit I know) I find that difficult to do.
I know we have the benefits of deployment etc. which is promised in Blackstone anyway. But there must be a compelling reason to go through the whole change process when the promised solution is on the way anyway. If there's stuff I'm totally missing out on please tell me. Too much work on at the moment means I can't see the wood for the trees. Cheers Martin. -----Original Message----- From: Vince Bonfanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2004 14:22 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: "Licensing" a CF app I'm not sure that "re-writing a tonne of code" is what would be required. We've converted a number of fairly large applications (thousands of pages) to BlueDragon; the time doing so is usually measured in hours or days. Often it's only one or two tweaks that have to be made to get everything running. Most BlueDragon customers approach this no differently than they would an upgrade from CF5 to CFMX, for example. That is, they don't expect their CF5 code to run perfectly "out of the box" on CFMX, and therefore don't expect the same from BlueDragon. Of course, just as for the CF5-to-CFMX upgrade, there has to be enough benefit to the BlueDragon upgrade to make it worth your effort. The first step (after reviewing the BlueDragon CFML Compatibility Guide) is to run the BlueDragon precompiler on your code base--this will flush out most of the incompatibilities. After that, it's a simple matter of running through your application to verify that everything works. We're happy to provide assistance if you're interested in making a go of it. Vince Bonfanti New Atlanta Communications, LLC http://www.newatlanta.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Parry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:55 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: "Licensing" a CF app > > I've pained over this and finally decided that the only > feasible way to do it was to provide a "CMS appliance" to the > customers who wanted to host their own websites/intranets > using my CMS. This is essentially a locked down server that > only I have access to (for updates etc.). > > I also spent quite a while trying to re-use the .class files > that CF generates. Proved a tad too tricky so I ditched that idea. > > Blue Dragon - When I was looking at it, yes it was very good > and offered this type of functionality but I have a LOT of > code in the CMS and Blue Dragon didn't work out of the box. > As I'm genetically lazy I couldn't stomach re-writing a tonne > of code - so stuck in my comfort zone ;) > > Just my 2¢ worth > > Martin Parry > Macromedia Certified Developer > http://www.BeetrootStreet.co.uk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom McNeer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 November 2004 21:35 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: "Licensing" a CF app > > Thanks to everyone who replied. > > I had forgotten about BlueDragon's ISV program. And I guess > it's unknown whether the Blackstone functionality referred to > would actually allow the sort of "disabling" we'd like. From > comments I've seen here before, Coral gets mixed reviews. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:186207 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
